FUDAN BIWEEKLY For International Community on Campus Issue 24. 04th Dec. 2015

Research Spotlight The 3rd AEARU Medical Center Forum Held at Fudan On Nov 20, The 3rd AEARU Medical Center Forum with the theme “Open a New Era for International Collaboration among Medical Centers at AEARU Universities” was held at Fudan University. Prof. Yonghao Gui, Vice President of Fudan University, Dean of Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University delivered his warmest welcome remarks and Dr. Chouwen Zhu, Director of Foreign Affair Office, Fudan University undertook the host. 6 key-note speeches were presented with a turnout of 60 participants, most of which come from Peking University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Tongji University, Shanghai University of Traditional Medicine, Tokyo University, and Melbourne University with the background either in the medical education and research administration or international collaboration.

The presentations, covering the topics of the elite medical students training, international joint research institute, international collaborative research platform, medical big data, precision medicine and novel program in nursing and public, made the forum attractive and productive with a face-to face discussion interacted between speakers and participants. Fudan University is one of members of AEARU, Association of East Asian Research Universities. For over 20-year history, AEARU serves as an advocator for the promotion of original research and continuous improvement of higher education. (Edited with Source from Fudan Homepage and Shanghai Medical College Website) Professor Tang Shiping Published a Significant Paper on Sociological Theory Recently, Professor Tang Shiping from the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan published his work entitled The Onset of Ethnic War：A General Theory on Sociological Theory. Sociological Theory, affiliated to the American Sociological Association, is a first-class journal in the field of sociology, with an SSCI impact factor of 2.226 (2014). Professor Tang is the first scholar from mainland China whose work is accepted by the journal. Professor Tang’s paper is a preliminary achievement of his study on ethnic conflicts. The paper integrates his previous fragmented researches on ethnic conflicts into a unified theory which comprises of various factors and mechanisms by applying two analytical approaches, i.e., the meta-mechanism of security dilemma/spiral model and the meta-mechanism of inter- population and intra-population interaction. The paper is regarded as first-class contribution to the study of this area. During the next stage, Professor Tang aims to develop a general theory for ethnic wars. (Source from Fudan Homepage, by Hong Nuo)

Campus News Fudan Professor Xu Hong’s Project Awarded Soong Ching-ling Prize for Pediatric Medicine Professor Xu Hong’s project “Establishment and Promotion for Early Detection and Intervention Strategies of Children Kidney Disease” was awarded the 9th Soong Ching-ling Prize for Pediatric Medicine. Professor Xu Hong’s research group affiliated with the Children’s Hospital of Fudan investigated kidney diseases in Children by conducting a large-scale urine screening among students in urban cities. The group reported that CAKUT is the main cause for children kidney diseases and developed a double screening model of urine screening and Ultrasound screening of the urinary system for the early diagnosis of CKD. To promote the result of their research, they also established 14 sites for double screening across the nation. (Source from Fudan Homepage, by Hong Nuo)

China ABC A Brief Introduction to the Mogao Grottoes Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Road, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao Grottoes are famous for their statues and wall paintings, spanning 1,000 years of Buddhist art. The Mogao Grottoes contain priceless paintings, sculptures, some 50,000 Buddhist scriptures, historical documents, textiles, and other relics that first stunned the world in the early 1900s. Dunhuang joss, all painted sculptures made of mud, are divided into single and group ones, and have vivid shapes and different presences with the tallest to 33m and shortest to 0.1m only.

In Dunhuang’s 492 grottoes, almost every one of them has flying gods. Flying gods in early caves are stocky with a big mouth and big ears, which is evidently influenced by the flying gods in the Indic and Western Region. However, the artistic image since the Tang Dynasty (618—907) has completely had the Chinese style, which is without wings and feathers but with flyaway dress and colored ribbons. According to local legend, in 366 AD a Buddhist monk, Le Zun, had a vision of a thousand Buddhas and inspired the excavation of the caves he envisioned. The number of temples eventually grew to more than a thousand. As Buddhist monks valued austerity in life, they sought retreat in remote caves to further their quest for enlightenment. From the 4th until the 14th century, Buddhist monks at Dunhuang collected scriptures from the west while many pilgrims passing through the area painted murals inside the caves. The cave paintings and architecture served as aids to meditation, as visual representations of the quest for enlightenment, as mnemonic devices, and as teaching tools to inform illiterate Chinese about Buddhist beliefs and stories.

Buddhist cave art originated in the second century B.C.E. in Maharashtra, India - an area of commercial importance for trade flows between north and south India. Between the inception at the older site at Ajanta and the completion of further ones at a nearby site at Ellora in the eighth century, some 63 caves were excavated and painted. With 492 painted grottoes, the Mogao Grottoes have more than eight times as many grottoes as those at India's primary two sites. That said, the Mogao Grottoes should not be understood as an isolated endeavor within China. They are merely the best example of an astonishingly widespread Buddhist cave movement in this nation.

Recommended Events From 29 Nov. Exhibition: Dunhuang: Songs of Living Beings Sponsor: Dunhuang Academy Venue: Shanghai Himalayas Gallery

06 Dec. Sun. Topic: Geography of European Medieval Towns III: Public Place 14:00 Speaker: Mario Neve Venue: Lecture Hall, Shanghai Museum

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